They join the
Member Directors elected last year, who have one year left on their term:
Serdar Basegmez, Developi Information Systems
Adam Foster, Oval
Jesse Gallagher, I Know Some Guys
Christian Güdemann, Webgate
Douglas Robinson, Prominic

The following
have been elected as Contributor Directors, the term for which is one year:

Padraic EdwardsNina WittichFredrik Norling

We would like
to welcome Nina to the board and we look forward to the year ahead. A number
of new initiatives are planned and there will be opportunities for people
to get involved over the coming months to help drive the organisation forward.

In the meantime,
I would recommend everyone to take a look at the OpenCode4Connections and
IBM Connections Customiser contest. The level of technical enablement is
something that we have all been working to improve over previous contests,
and there are now four
videos to
allow you to hit the ground running.

We at OpenNTF.org
are excited to launch our new brand - OpenCode4Connections.org.
OpenNTF has a proven track history in building open source communities
around interesting technologies and products, e.g. it was the incubinator
for the success of XPages. But let us welcome our newest member:

OpenCode4Connections.org

The intention behind OpenCode4Connections.org
is a very simple and short story! IBM Connections deserves a dedicated
place where the Open Source Community can meet and collaborate in a creative
way to build solutions and fix problems!

To celebrate the start of OpenCode4Connections.org
we have decide to organize the IBM Connections Customizer Contest. Learn
more about it here!

It's the time of
year when we invite anyone interested in participating in OpenNTF's Board
of Directors to submit their names to ip-manager at openntf.org.
Employees of member organizations may be nominated as a Member Director
– with a two-year term. There are four such board positions open
for election.
Contributors may be nominated as a Contributor Director – with a one year
term. There are three such board positions open for election.

The terms of four Member Directors whose term expires this October, Members
whose terms expire this year may, of course, run again for another two
year term. They are:
Oliver Busse - We4IT
Martin Donnelly - IBM
Nathan Freeman - Red Pill Development
Paul Withers - Intec Systems Ltd

The terms of the three Contributor Directors expire this year. Again,
they have the option of running again. They are:
Padraic Edwards
Johnny Oldenburger
Fredrik Norling
Election schedule:

Nominations open until September 23rd.
Circulation of Candidate Statements September 23rd
Voting from September 23rd to 30th
The winners take office on Oct 12th.